40 Delightful Pieces of Tilt-Shift Photography

Tilt-shift photography is the art of blurring or bending the perspective of the camera so that everyday, life-size objects look delightfully miniature. Here are 40 great examples of just that form of photography, both for inspiration and fun!

1. Tibidabo – Barcelona

2. China Tilt Shift 2

3. China Tilt Shift 3

4. China Tilt Shift 1

5. Fix Your Eye

6. Mini B-More

7. Gherkin Tilt-Shift

8. River Thames Tilt-Shift

9. Terracotta Warriors Tilt Shift

10. Macau Tilt Shift

11. Tilt-Shift Photography Trial I

12. First Try at Tilt-Shift Photography

13. Tilt Shift Test

14. I Live in a Dollhouse

15. Wellington, New Zealand

16. Tilt-Shift Photo Technique 3

17. Tuscany

18. Model Boats

19. Miniature Pumpkins on the Behance Network

20. Tilt Shift Effect

21. Mockery of Tilt-Shift

22. Tilt-Shift Photography

23. Tilt-Shift Seaplane

24. Tilt-Shift Fake

25. Tilt-Shift 01

26. JAPAN Tilt-Shift

27. Sydney Miniatures

28. Fake Miniature

29. Vatican Toy

30. It Feels Like Something

31. Tilt-Shift Photography 01

32. Tilt-Shift Photography 02

33. Tilt-Shift Photography 03

34. LjubljanaTS

35. Inside the Texas Capitol

36. Sydney Miniatures No.3

37. Manchester City vs Fulham

38. NHL in Montreal

39. Ants, Dubai

40. Niagara Falls

Tibidabo - Barcelona

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Some great photos there. Others i’m afraid aren’t quite so good, the appear to be attempting the ‘miniature’ look with software, but without objects at the same distance having the same level of sharpness. The end result can look slightly odd. If miniature is the aim the software route can be very intricate to do.

How many of these photos are true tilt-shift using a tilt shift lens? Without the tilt shift lens then this is just selective blurring in post processing. Nothing wrong with that but let’s stop calling them “tilt shift” photography.

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